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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling BTC or not..?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a rarity on Lemmy, I’m neutral on bitcoin as an investment. Yes, it’s very voltaile, but it does continue to have a record of going up over any 3 year period. So does the traditional stock market. The argument against bitcoin is that it could collapse at any moment and is only propped up by those who keep buying into the pyramid scheme. OK, and? Same can be said about traditional stock markets. The prices are entirely fictional there, too. We have supposed outlier cases like Tesla being massively overvalued, leading to crashes. The same could be said about any other company because the metrics are subjective, feigned as objective because someone made some predictive mathematical formulas. Neither one is actually run by the small-time inveators/buyers like you and me, it’s all operated by massive investment companies. They have an interest in winning and we hope we can hold onto our shares through economic downturns in order to ride the total bullshit profit trains they fuel after each crash.

  Back to the question at hand, like any investment, once you sell, don’t look back at what you could have had. You sell the item in exchange for money, then that money buys you something of comparable value at the time of the transaction. It’s hard to do, but that’s the only clean way too look at it.

  So from an isolated viewpoint, there’s nothing wrong with selling now at its latest high and turning it into something tangible. But as others have said, make sure the current $1500 value would not be that important to you otherwise. You could ask yourself what you would decide if you simply had $1500 extra in the bank. Would it still be justified? Would you still be comfortable? Would you still be able to handle a reasonable financial setback? I don’t know your life, location, or situation (and don’t want to know) so that’s your decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low flow toilets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The part where you effectively quoted Trump? Is that where you’re not sure if it’s satire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a US city you’ve heard of, racism probably won’t stop you from living there. You might find pockets, but larger cities should be ok overall. Often they’ll have pockets of people that might hate you for a myriad of reasons. Maybe their ethnicity already hates yours back home. Maybe you’re part of an immigration wave that happened at the same time as there’s, making the two hate each other to step on the other to lift their own (NY Italian and Irish in the early 1900s). Maybe they believe immigrants are consuming all the resources and you’re the reason they’re poor (general hate from whites across the country, but localized majorities do it too).

  But, overall, cities will generally have less meaningful racism because, as it turns out, if you spend your life next to other races/ethnicities, you realize we’re all human living the same struggle. Urban/suburban metro areas surrounding them will be similar. Sometimes there’s simple cultural misunderstandings, but once you see the first generation children raised in the local area, you see it has nothing to do with race after all.

  But this is not a guarantee it’ll be all dandy and magically happy. I don’t know your ethnicity and I don’t know where you want to go. Even if I did, I don’t know everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it to have very bright skin in America?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my usage, ethnicity refers to somewhat socially-defined regional identities. Basically, what country/group is your ancestral origin. You might call this a nationality, but, to me, that implies I’m assuming you’re not a US national/citizen. This also gives a leeway to include ethnic groups not restricted to a particular country such as certain groups of Jews, nomadic groups like Romani, or sub-groups of countries like Sicilian.

  But I really don’t ask often because it’s not really important and can easily be taken as an insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can appreciate the personal part you added regarding losing faith. I left catholicism in my teens. Too many inconsistencies, too much abuse of power. It started by questioning how multiple christianities could have such different rules, followed by learning how most religion is abrahamic and even more diverse in interpretation, to finally saying fuck all this.

  I got FC5 in 2020 and it became hard to stomach. It felt like a real potential reality of the US that year. Cults, vehement religious figures, gun fetish, and a classic Americana setting. The prior titles were all far away, imaginary lands offering even a small degree of dissociation. FC5 was just home. I’d relate it to Harry Potter villains in the sense that yeah, of course we know Voldemort is evil, but Umbridge is the most hated character. Not because she’s worse, but because we know a real-life Umbridge personally.

  FC6 hit me kinda hard in a similar way. I got into it about a year ago, not long after the israel/Palestine conflict flared up. There’s a ton of genocidal themes there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just gotta have reading hormones. Everything smells better that way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unless you want a battle with them

  There’s a month left in the semester, probably. I agree, roll over to not risk some petty bullshit. OP may never have this professor again in their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just use the blinker the way they worked for the 50 years prior and lock it on and click it off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life, uh, finds a way Life… Finds a way Life [checks notes] finds a way
  Life, finds a way Life [deep breath] finds a way Life [lean away from the microphone to breathe in] finds a way Life [scratches head] finds a way?
  Life [gestures vaguely to day care center] finds a way

  They are performative modifiers to add visual context to text. Imagine you’re reading a script for a play. The author adds notes like some of the examples above, in a similar format, in order to better convey what they want the actors to do, by text alone, to better convey the author’s intent to the audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [looks to audience]

  Imagine being this concerned about typed memes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 2nd gen Ford Fusion and was able to reprogram it via computer and software. 3 by default, now 4. Could do 1-7 IIRC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because a school has an entire ESL department taught by ESL speakers does not mean all ESL speakers are qualified to teach ESL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lessons are forgotten fast. Ask an adult to do 3 digit multiplication and watch them fumble. Ask about geometry and they’ll ask Google for a calculator. I don’t remember how to do projectile physics. All the same for English. If all a person does is speak the language while writing very simple messages (in comparison to English essays), the memory of complex synthesis is lost fast. If they’re not continuing to do those tasks in life, it’s gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At average apparent text sizes, you only see ~4 letters clearly at a time, so it’s often enough that you can’t read a whole word at once. From there, there’s so many prefixes, suffixes, conjugations, compounds, and portmanteaus that it doesn’t make sense to just try to memorize the dictionary. What happens when you’re reading a flamboyant author that has tons of theasaraus usage and you come across words you’ve never heard in your life? You use context as best you can, but if there’s familiar roots in the word, you have a better chance of understanding it.

  Also

  spelt

  That is a grain spelled “spelt”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re overestimating the average quality of English as a second/third language education. The internet continuously becomes more accessible across the globe, which has overlap with lower quality and lower frequency of English lessons. There’s more exposure from speakers that don’t use the same native alphabet as well, so use is not so universal. When speaking is the primary use of language, reading is secondary, and writing is tertiary, mistakes get interesting. It’s not too hard to hear the word “extreme” but visualize the spelling from words like dream, team, cream, or beam, all words I could see being more commonly used than extreme. It’s easier to learn “very” as a modifier to a common adjective.

  Source: I work in the US with mixed central/south American-born employees and travel to Mexico often. I see casual US-sourced mistakes, of course, as well as those distinctly from Spanish-speaking writers. My Spanish is just as incorrect. If you can say it out loud and still make sense, I’ll vote for non-native English speakers every time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, brights are a fuck-you for having your brights locked on or having swapped bulb types that cannot actually be aimed properly because they fucked with the beam pattern. Or you’re using light bars/pods with non-highway optics, in which case, have my brights and my light bar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over 15 years driving, here. I use blinkers all the time. I feel weird if I change lanes without a blinker, even if I know for an absolute fact there’s no one around me… Or even any that can see me. And I mean, I’ll even use it when I do a little road rage for people camping in the passing lane and I pass them on the wrong side, cutting a little close when returning. That being said, a driveway is something I’d make a joke about among friends. It wouldn’t make me judge you as a driver. I’d use the rest of your driving as my judgment material.

  My 2 cents on a topic you didn’t ask for: Do not hold down the passing lane. It makes me a little irrational, but only with a totally clear line of sight. There’s plenty of dumber morons that suck at it, so camping sprinkles a little chaos into the hierarchy of the lanes. It does not matter how your speed compares to the limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “on known participant” is a great term for it. I use it alone on my neighborhood turns, particularly at night, because I can’t properly see around the turn. One of them is totally in darkness, situated between street lights. If there’s a pedestrian crossing, I’d like to give them a little warning. One of my cars has stellar fog lights and gives ample sideways light though, so I recommend using them under 40mph for turns

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, I’ll do metric for you on your theory of muscle being equivalent perfect vacuum. I have some similar corelle dishes. The flat measures 10cm across. That’s 78. 5cm^2 area. Assuming OP lives at sea level, 1atm is 1.033kg/cm^2 which puts the total force at over 81kg. This bowl offers no horizontal surfaces to hook fingers under to utilize geometric advantages and is instead entirely dependent on friciton. If your fingertips can squeeze sideways with enough force to pull a smooth, tapered 81kg object without glue, there’s a gold bar in a Dubai mall with your name on it.

  4 inches diameter, 12.6in^2, 180lbs for the Americans.

  At some point between 0 and 81kg of force, I’d start worrying about breaking the plate with such little support around the rim. And, as for the impossibility of a perfect vacuum, I’d be easily convinced the bowl could have more than half of the maximum possible pressure differential. A large portion of the interior volume is probably ravioli, minimizing the gas volume. Ravioli are full of water, which means the remainder of gaseous volume in the bowl was probably mostly steam, pushing out the standard air. Steam has an insane compression ratio as it cools and condenses back into water, at about 1700:1. Go watch the video of a tank car imploding from steam condensation.

  I cover my bowls the same way. I always cock the plate to the side for this exact reason. My 1L (4 cup) pyrex bowls with silicone lids can cave 1" if they’re allowed to cool for a minute. Steam easily vents from the rim as it’s produced but once it starts cooling, the weight of the lid or plate is plenty to get the initial seal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you figure suction is very limited? You’ve never tried to pull a suction cup straight off, have you? I’m not talking about when suction cups have bad sealing surfaces and slowly leak to the point of popping off or peeling suction cups off from a corner, I’m talking applying it to a good surface and then yanking it.

  A shoddy 4.5" suction cup from Harbor Freight is rated at 80lbs carrying capacity for glass, which happens to likely be the same material as the dish (corelle), judging form the thinness. The bowl is probably plastic and had weight on it while these were hot and wet after washing. Please, let me know if you can lift an 80lb dumbell from the end with a single hand with ease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, your qualified. It just sounded wild that you have a known preferred day for an item I’ve chosen once in my life. Twice? And I went with an air mattress this time so I’m not sure when I’ll actually need to replace it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times have you done this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the tariffs lead to a recession?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has “once in a generation” always meant every 20 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2 people I know watched Mouse Hunt for the first time this month and both hated it. Not really his movie though, I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not effectively. You’ll just have a lower concentration of CO2 in your exhaled air. Maybe it’ll stay the same with the increase in exertion by breathing more, but that’d be a good way to estimate how little energy your breathing consumes compared to proper exercise. And after all that, exercise is pretty slow to burn calories as well. The good news is your brain burns calories by thinking harder, an activity we’re both now involved in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re still regenerating tissue, your body is still producing weight. Drastically reduced (I’d guess by 75% total, of which 2/3 is dead digestive bacteria you’d no longer need), but still existent.

  Fun fact, you don’t defecate out weight loss, either. You exhale carbon in CO2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's them tariffs going⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  7. JD Vance’s high heels
  8. Altar boys’ embarassed lips
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile in 2025, I’m deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for “anti theft” purposes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petty pedantry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but,